Baseball as a Road to God

John Sexton, the president of New York University, holds tight to some deep truths: that his late wife is still with him, that there’s more to life than science, and that baseball and God are connected.

He is also a man of intriguing contradictions. A native of Brooklyn, he roots for the Yankees. He works within an environment of science and learning, but he holds on to his belief in the reality of the ineffable. Surrounded by doubters, he remains steadfast in his Catholicism.